Frankfurt Walking Tours, German building guides, Architectural walks Germany, Architects visits
Frankfurt Architecture Tours
post updated 20 May 2025
Visit major buildngs by world-famous architects like Richard Meier (USA), Foster + Partners (UK), UNStudio (Netherlands) and Sauerbruch Hutton (Germany).
Book your city guide on isabelle(at)e-architect.com
Major recent building in the city – European Central Bank Frankfurt Tower Building design by Vienna architects COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. This tall structure opened in 2016:
photograph © European Central Bank/Robert Metsch
German Architecture Guides – Exclusive City Walks tailor made for groups visiting Hesse
Frankfurt Architecture Walking Tours
e-architect have architectural tour guides in most of the key cities across Europe.
Our Frankfurt guided tours are all tailored to suit each booking we do not allow for bookings to be joined. Our guided tours in Frankfurt are all exclusive to each client.
Should you be planning an office trip, a conference, or university trip to Frankfurt please contact us and we would be happy to take your booking.
Tower 185 Building design by Professor Christoph Mäckler Architekten:
photo © Klaus Helbig
Frankfurt Architecture – Introduction
Frankfurt has a wide range of contemporary architecture. Key buildings include Museum für Kunsthandwerk (Museum of Arts and Crafts Frankfurt) by world-famous architect Richard Meier (USA) and the Commerzbank Tower by Foster & Partners, Architects (UK). Key recent buildings include Tower 185 Building by Prof. Christoph Mäckler Architekten and the KfW Westarkade Building – “Best Tall Building in the World 2011” – building by Sauerbruch Hutton. A major proposal is the Grand Hyatt Tower by UNStudio (Netherlands).
Frankfurt Walking Tours
Frankfurt Architectural Tours can focus on contemporary German buildings, or historic buildings, or both. Our guides can meet your group at the hotel but more typically at the first building on the tour. e-archiect can help with preparing a good itinerary for your visit. Language can be English or German – please advise us.
Frankfurt Architecture : key contemporary buildings in this major German city
Contact e-architect to arrange your Frankfurt Walking Tour on isabelle(at)e-architect.com
Architecture Tours
e-architect also organise architecture walking tours in other German cities – Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg and Stuttgart. We also offer good quality city walks in other Northern European cities such as Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, London, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
European Building Tours – Selection
Berlin Architectural Walking Tours
Frankfurt Buildings
Frankfurt Building – selection of key structures below:
FOUR Frankfurt Towers
Design: UNStudio & HPP Architects (UNS + HPP)
image courtesy of architects
FOUR Frankfurt Development
UNStudio join forces with HPP Architects to create a consortium (UNS + HPP) to carry out the next phases of the project. Both companies bring many years of experience with large-scale projects, complex planning and design processes.
Alte Oper Concert Hall, Opernplatz
Architects: Buero Wagner
image by Buero Wagner & Federico Ciavarell © Buero Wagner
Alte Oper in Frankfurt
The Alte Oper is one of the world’s leading concert halls. Each year 450,000 people come to visit more than 400 concerts performed by internationally renowned artists of the classical music, jazz and the entertainment sector. The venue intends to convert one of its multifunctional used foyers into a central and adjustable place of encounter, conversation and interchange.
Commerzbank Tower
Design: Foster & Partners Architects
This 56-story, 259 m high futurist skyscraper – owned by Samsung of Korea since 2016 – is located in the banking district. An antenna spire with a signal light on top gives the tower a total height of 300.1 m (985 ft). The gleaming structure is the tallest building in the city, and the tallest building in Germany.
Commerzbank Tower Frankfurt Skyscraper
German Architecture
Architecture in Northwest German cities
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